Watch the films of the 9th Chania International Film Festival!

Playing with Fire

Women actors in Afghanistan who have the audacity to engage in theatre are treated with harsh criticism, social disapproval, and even receive threats to their lives and their families.

Tongue twisters

What are Tongue-twisters? Why do they exist in Language? What do they serve? What is it that so unscrupulously associates some selected words with laughter? Can a documentation on language be at the same time a modern social recording of the perceptuality of euphoria? A funnylingualededucationalparamythochtopichpogagliariko documentary

Hansel

A little boy finds himself trapped in a Sugar Cane that hides a gloomy world inside him, while his mother is desperately trying to find the door that will get him out of there.

The Vase

A boy is trying to come of age in the Greek countryside. He faces the gaze of the father, the silence of the mother and the endless sun.

Z

“Any resemblance to true events, with faces alive or dead, is deliberate!” the sincere rage that runs through Gavras’ classic political thriller becomes apparent in every frame, from credits to looks, from demonstrations to interrogations, and at every possible intermediate point. Based on the novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos, which concerns the

Don’t Forget Me

When Kakia feels trapped inside her own birthday party and decides to take a walk through an alley she’s had years to visit, hanging out with someone who knew her better than anyone.

Pashka

Father and son drive to the border. The road becomes one with their memories. Away from home, they fight not only for themselves, but also for the rest of the family. But the boy’s desire to return home will lead them on an unexpected journey.

Dakar

1978. On his birthday, Stavros had arranged to betrothed to Matoula. Instead, he was forced to set sail for his first trip. 2020. On his birthday, Stavros wanders around the city alone. This day he doesn’t like to talk. It is the day that reminisces about the past and wonders what things would have been

In Gypsum

From a mishandling that led to the demolition of a prison system, but also the mass escape of most of the inmates, Jail-R… he falls on the soft side just losing his job….

The Girl Who Couldn’t Sleep

The girl with eyes wide open waits for the alarm clock to ring. He did not sleep at night. He has to sleep many nights. Her day will start as usual, but what will happen on her way is anything but ordinary.

The Stain

A former soldier working in a movie theater struggles with a red stain that appears on screen every time he plays a war movie. The more effort he puts in, the bigger the stain becomes bigger and falls to the floor creating a pond. Unable to remove the stain, this man must face the incurable

Perfume Crime

Nothing is impossible for Detective Valerio. Every crime has its smell. So that’s it! How will he find the edge?

Debt

A eulogy to friendship from an angel sinner… “Every person we know in our lives is a journey and many times we feel from the beginning whether we will travel with him first class or without luggage and with empty pockets.” Alekos Zukas is a very dear man, revelers and at the same time deeply

The Fourth Character

The parallel monologues of three people grope the experiences of loss, guilt, faith and the search for redemption. Their confessions intertwine with the city in a cinematic composition of the inner world of the characters with the urban landscape, where our heroes wander performing their small rituals.

M.I.A.

Myrto Georgiou, the main character of our story, is 35 years old and suffers from an autoimmune disease. Just before her 35th birthday, through a series of obstacles, she has to decide what she needs most: To live in the shackles set by society or to accept herself and her diversity?

The Beach

Matala, Crete. July 1969. Hippies from all over the world live on the beach for years, staying inside the caves of the rock. The Cretan society has accepted them. The summer of love will end abruptly, but between Hypatia and Harry there are still open accounts.

K. P. Cavafy | The City (Where My Eye I Turn)

Colorblind

In 1965 in Boston a black man invites the woman with whom he is in love on a date.

The Lady of Moonlight

Based on the poem The Moonlight Sonata from the Fourth Dimension by Yannis Ritsos, the Lady of moonlight is the “useless confession” of an old woman, dressed in black, towards an unspoken (and callous) young man in an old, moonlit room – as well as a heartbreaking negotiation of the passage of time, decay, desire

Daniel ’16

Daniel, a German teenager, is forced to go to Greece, in a community of child education, to serve his sentence. There, in an abandoned village of Evros near the border with Turkey, he experiences unprecedented feelings and is called to give a solution to difficult dilemmas… His final decision will surprise everyone.